...suffrage. respect was well expressed by President John Quincy Adams in one of his message to Congress : The great object of the institution of civil government...improvement of the condition of those who are parties to tMe social compact, and no government. in whatever form constituted, can accomplish the lawful ends...

...justified this bold program. "The great object of the institution of civil government," he asserted, "is the improvement of the condition of those who are parties to the social compact." "Moral, political, [and] intellectual improvement" are as legitimately an object of government support...

...four propositions to be misleading, overwrought or simply wrong. the "great object" of government as "the improvement of the condition of those who are parties to the social compact," described "moral, political, intellectual improvement" as duties assigned "to social no less than to...

...regions and multitudes of men." The rationale for such a spectacular program was manifestly obvious. "The great object of the institution of civil government...condition of those who are parties to the social compact." Besides, "the spirit of improvement is abroad upon the earth. . . . Liberty is power [and that] . ....

...Congress, in December 1825, captures this aspect of his thought: "The great object of the institution of government is the improvement of the condition of those who are parties to the social compact. . . . Roads and canals, by multiplying and facilitating the communications and intercourse between...

...President John Quincy Adams, with a logic comprehensible to Latin American Creoles, solemnly declared the "great object of the institution of civil government...the condition of those who are parties to the social compact."37 Jefferson the philosopher extolled the agrarian and condemned the commercial world. But...

...comments, but he went ahead with his original plan. In his Annual Message Adams re-asserted his belief that "the great object of the institution of civil government...condition of those who are parties to the social compact." To this end he proposed a package of measures that included an accelerated program of road and canal...

...improvement of society and its members. In his first Annual Message as President, Adams flatly stated, The great object of the institution of civil government is the improvement of those who are parties to the social compact, and no government, in whatever form constituted, can accomplish...

...object of the institution of civil government," said John Quincy Adams in his first message to Congress, "is the improvement of the condition of those who...whatever form constituted, can accomplish the lawful end of its institution but in proportion as it improves the condition of those over whom it is established....

...his inaugural address, President john Quincy Adams stated his broad plan of internal improvements: "The great object of the institution of civil government is the improvement of those who are parties social to the compact. " In his first Annual Message (6 December 1825), the President...